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Infinity program to help 100 children boost their school results

Infinity program to help 100 children boost their school results

Our SATlings project at Cloetesville High School in Stellenbosch is now in its 3rd year and has already made a significant difference to the schooling and career prospects of 15 young boys and girls in grades 9, 10 and 11. The project is well known amongst the teachers and children at the school, and each [...]

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Space Age is looking to recruit some of the best IT professionals out there- are you one of them?

Space Age is looking to recruit some of the best IT professionals out there- are you one of them?

Over the last 18 years Space Age has grown into a rather impressive company. Employing around 60 staff members and with no signs of stopping, we are looking to add to our growing team.  At Space Age we do not just hire people to fill a job position instead we hire people who want to [...]

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Tips and Tricks- 22 Excel shortcuts

Tips and Tricks- 22 Excel shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts we all know of them but how many of us really have the time to learn all of them? If you are an Excel user and use it as much as I do, here are 22 really handy command shortcuts you may want to remember.
So go ahead try it out!

For more Windows shortcuts click [...]

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Our three generations of SATlings

Our three generations of SATlings

2012 began with a full team of fifteen SATlings. With the help of a few new CSI partners and personal contributions from our employees, a third group of SATlings joined the project this year.
We are incredibly proud of our three generations of SATlings!

Back row from left to right: Caroldene Daniels, Jean Claude Jumat, Dominique Adams, [...]

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Is ‘IT’ really that important to companies in the tourism industry?

This month we focus on IT in the tourism industry and what aspects of technology are seen to be important from both an operational side of a company, to how ‘new technologies’ are improving the industry.
Sure Giltedge Travel has been a client of Space Age for more than 3 years, over the last few months [...]

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Healthy IT- How Vital Health Foods makes use of IT

How do we deliver a healthy IT service experience at Vital Health Foods?
The problem
Since 2005 Space Age has been providing a fulltime onsite resource to Vital Health Foods (Vital) in order to fulfil their IT support demand. As Vital has over 160 computer users it made sense to have a fulltime onsite IT resource. The [...]

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Would your IT infrastructure be given a clean bill of health?

If you were to compare the health of an IT environment to that of an athlete, you would find some fundamental similarities. Just as the overall health of an athlete’s body would impact his success, so too will the ‘health’ of your IT directly affect the performance benefits to your business.
So what is Healthy IT?
Ideally [...]

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How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

How Billabong ‘surfer giant’ makes use of IT

With Christmas around the corner we thought it may be interesting to find out how a company in the retail industry would benefit from technology.  Heston Paules one of our solution consultants discusses how technology can benefit a company such as Billabong South Africa.
The problem:
Billabong South Africa was faced with an IT platform that was [...]

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SATlings 2011

SATlings 2011

Another year has come and gone. The SATlings have completed their exams and now eagerly await their school reports. They have worked very hard this year and each group was spoilt with an outing to celebrate the end of another successful year on the SATlings project.

We would also like to officially welcome our new CSI partners [...]

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Online Backup versus Onsite Backup

It’s not about if you lose data, it’s about when you lose critical data.
Whether it’s through hardware or software failure, user error, theft, the chances are that somewhere down the line critical data will be lost in some way, and therefore, it is imperative that a strategy is implemented for the backing up of important [...]

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